In Mythology
- Galatea (mythology):
- Galatea, a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)
- Galatea, a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea (mythology)
- Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion (mythology)
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“One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind! The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and patience, and persistency has this mythus been stamped on the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to dethrone Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)